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Slumdog Millionaire is ridiculous: Rushdie

AFP / Mar 02, 2009, 15:16 IST

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British-Indian author Salman Rushdie has attacked the plot of multiple Oscar-winning film 'Slumdog Millionaire' as a 'patently ridiculous conceit'.

Slumdog Millionaire is ridiculous: Rushdie

British-Indian author Salman Rushdie has attacked the plot of multiple Oscar-winning film 'Slumdog Millionaire' as a 'patently ridiculous conceit'.

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